Workers' Compensation News
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Tax Bill Would Add 7% Sales Tax to Claimant Attorney Fees
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09/29/2014
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State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Proposed legislation in Pennsylvania that seeks to shift the tax burden to state residents from property taxes to increased personal income taxes includes a provision that would impose a sales tax on legal services, including those provided to workers' comp claimants.
One Philadelphia...Read More
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TAB Supporting Texas Mutual Privatization on Jobs Agenda Tour
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09/26/2014
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State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Texas Association of Business is supporting Texas Mutual Insurance Company’s attempt to privatize as TAB begins its Jobs Agenda Tour.
TAB’s 13-city tour through the state to support pro-business priorities for the 2015 legislative session began Wednesday in San Angelo. Tex...Read More
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Trenton to Hire Risk Manager to Manage Rising Workers' Comp Costs
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09/22/2014
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State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The City of Trenton, New Jersey, will consider hiring a risk manager to manage workers’ compensation claims against the city.
The Times of Trenton reported that city officials, concerned that Trenton is losing “upwards of $4 million each year due to the mismanagement of worker...Read More
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Trucking Company Receives $108,020 in Fines for Repeated Forklift Hazards
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09/15/2014
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State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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A trucking company with operations in Rock Island, Illinois, is facing $108,020 in fines after an Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection in March found that the company wasn't properly inspecting and maintaining its forklifts, among other issues.
OSHA announced five ...Read More
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Two Traverse City Law Firms Merge, Plan to Practice Workers' Compensation
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09/11/2014
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State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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Two northwestern Michigan law firms have merged to form a new company with attorneys practicing in a variety of areas, including workers' compensation.
Kuhn, Darling, Boyd and Quandt and Calcutt, Rogers and Boynton, both based in Traverse City, announced the merger and creation o...Read More
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Temp Employee Working at Columbia University Can't Sue School in Tort
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09/09/2014
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Source: WorkCompCentral
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A coat checker working at Columbia University through a staffing agency could not assert a viable tort claim against the school based on a workplace fall since it qualified as her special employer and she had already received workers' compensation benefits from her direct employer, a New York...Read More
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Tower MSA Partners Appoints Head of Review and Intervention Services
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09/09/2014
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Source: Tower MSA Partners
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Tower MSA Partners has selected a new leader to oversee its pre-Medicare set-aside review and intervention services.
The Delray Beach, Florida, company tapped Holly Neary as director of clinical operations, according to a Monday ...Read More
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Tower Group Failure Would be Largest Insurer Insolvency on Record
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09/04/2014
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A.M. Best's decision last week to downgrade the ratings of Tower Group International's U.S. subsidiaries to junk-bond levels is the latest in a string of bad news for the carrier that includes a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, a delisting threat by the Nadsaq stock excha...Read More
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Thirteen Uninsured Businesses Caught in Outreach Effort
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08/29/2014
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The California Department of Insurance found 13 businesses operating without workers’ compensation insurance during what it described as both a statewide, multi-agency outreach effort and a sweep.
The Insurance Department and enforcement teams from five different state agencies &ldq...Read More
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